Complexity kills, wrote Ray Ozzie in his seven page memo It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.
Can This Man Reprogram Microsoft? Is a story in this Sunday's NYTimes about Ray Ozzie's emergence as Microsoft's great hope to create software on the network, as services replace shrink-raped software.
Readers of my blog will remember that I got a chance to talk to Ray at Web 2.0 and he was a very nice guy. Ray is a Technologist who has earned our respect through Lotus Notes and Groove, he's not a Salesman or a PR guy, he's the real deal. To architect Web Services you need to be a software developer who understands networking and Ray is the go-to guy to get this new system operating.
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